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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1935
Page
3
Published every Thursday Morning Elizabeth Priest Local Editor Member of Iowa Press Association National Editorial Association Entered in the post office at Clermont Fayette County Iowa as second class mail matter.
Luther Church services in English and Norwegian at Clermont. East Church hosts Luther League event Sunday evening. West Church hosts Priscila Working Band meeting Aug 7. Local social and visiting notes include several residents’ travels and visits across Decorah Clear Lake McGregor Spillville and La Crosse with family gatherings and a funeral.
Ladies from Spillville host a parish gathering chaired by Mrs. Burke with reports from Ossian West Union and other deaneries. Officers were reelected, prayers offered, and a short playlet performed for attendees including Clermont residents. Refreshments followed the meeting.
Clermont residents and visitors are featured in a weekend roundup. Chicago’s Mr and Mrs James McAlvin visited Lillian Larrabee. A Phillmore family returned to Riverside NL after a week with Jay White kin. Multiple households hosted gatherings and a photo in Des Moines Register spotlighted Thomas Colliton with Andrew Helgerson’s oxen team. A Minnesota physician notes men may shrink further in a century. Want ads invite buying selling renting.
George Mack Adams of the Wyandotte Daily Record cites a personal survey showing 80 plus percent of residents prefer newspaper advertising to hand bills. He notes many residents resent litter from hand bills and refuse to buy from merchants who distribute them.
Marion township home project workers held an organization meeting at Mrs Roy Walters home to set plans for 1936. Major project is third year home management with music as a minor project. Harriet Cook Inham will present lessons in Clayton county with dates for Elkader training schools and district leaders named across six districts.
A Montreal Star quip on oratory contrasts black and white with noisy action. A Beachwood New Jersey carpenter, delayed by wine, wedged himself in a lattice porch screen and had neighbors remove the woodwork to free him.
A terse rural remark details how a neighbor kept hens by shifting eggs between yards to avoid disturbance. The speaker notes work as a tonic and warns that idleness and worry shorten lives, urging a resolve to face fatigue together and end passive resistance.
A West Union family drew Sheriff H J Nehring City Marshal Leon Johnson and others to their home at 2 a m last Wednesday to quell a family row. A young woman, recently returned from bar work, was taken to the jail second story where she slid down the banisters twice. Marshal Son threatened with a night stick as the knickered young woman eluded him. The next day she paid a $5 fine plus costs in Justice Riley's court.
State fair management announced tentative plans for a first annual Press Day at the Des Moines fair honoring Iowa publishers. Event officials consider Friday or Saturday August 23 or 24 as Press Day at the Fair.
A Lenin bust sits atop a Pamir peak reached by Soviet climbers at 7,126 meters. The ascent marks one of the world’s loftiest monuments. The text notes varied facts about secrets, Earth and Moon distances, and pension laws enacted in multiple states in the 1930s.
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